By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Learning Technology
The April, 2005, issue of Learning Technology is now available and contains a number of useful (albeit short) articles, as usual. In particular, readers will wnat to look at CASLO: Collaborative Annotation Service for Learning Objects, by Carmen L. Padrón and two others in Madrid. More...
SPARC Open Access Newsletter, issue #85
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. SPARC Open Access Newsletter, issue #85
This month's issue of the newsletter has, in addition to its usual wealth of resources, two articles worth a read. The first recommends that authors of articles self-archived on their own site include any publication information on the article page itself. Good point. The second article looks at the problems publishers have tracking readers of self-archived articles and looks at a (bad) solution offered by Adobe whereby the PDF would report back to the publisher whenever a document was opened by a reader. More...
A price to be paid for open-access academic publishing
The headlong rush towards further adoption of open-access models demands careful thought. While questions around access to scientific research tend to grab attention, the long tail of implications are a particular concern for those of us working in the arts and humanities. More...
College in a Box
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. College in a Box
Gabriel Kahn, Slate, 2014/09/11
As textbook publishers are now effectively 'teaching' college classes, students can't be blamed for wondering why they're paying tuition. More...
Crowd-Sourced Peer Review: Substitute or supplement for the current outdated system?
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Crowd-Sourced Peer Review: Substitute or supplement for the current outdated system?
Peter Suber, London School of Economics, 2014/08/27
Many authors, writes Peter Suber, prefer to have their work reviewed in private. But this may be about to change. More...
The Empire acquires the rebel alliance: Mendeley users revolt against Elsevier takeover
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The Empire acquires the rebel alliance: Mendeley users revolt against Elsevier takeover
Matthew Ingram, paidContent, April 10, 2013
Continuing from this item covered yesterday, it appears (unsurprisingly) that Mendeley users are not happy with Elsevier's acquisition of the company. Some of the most stinging comments:
- "Mendeley cannot fix Elsevier's reputation. Elsevier published fake journals, backed SOPA, used bundles to screw scholars/libraries. Too evil." - danah boyd
- "The thought of trusting @Elsevier with detailed info about my reading habits is, well, repulsive. Sorry, @mrgunn, but I'm out." - David Weinberger
- "Within a year your company will be effectively dismantled and anyone left over who actually cares about open access can start over from scratch." - commenter on Hacker News
There's more, oh so much more. More...
Semactu 53
Service public territorial est en ligne
Europe : avenir des administrations locales
Revue Travail et emploi - Varia
Vous pouvez consulter l’intégralité du numéro 154 sur Cairn si votre institution dispose d’un abonnement. Les notes de lecture, non mentionnées ici, y sont en libre accès.
Une marche vers l’égalité professionnelle en trompe-l’œil. Disponibilité biographique et inégalités de carrière des hôtesses et stewards
Anne Lambert, Delphine Remillon
Cet article propose une analyse comparée des carrières des hôtesses et des stewards dans le transport aérien. L’exploitation des fichiers du personnel, adossée à l’analyse des accords collectifs des personnels navigants commerciaux et des entretiens de salariés, met en évidence une progression de l’égalité professionnelle en trompe-l’œil dans la compagnie étudiée. Plus...